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...matter whom they may more or less resemble in life, author Daley's caricature creatures seem more like conventioneering Rotarians or stodgy minor bureaucrats than journalistic giants. Bureau chiefs loll about sidewalk cafés or tool around in chauffeurdriven limousines, rewriting local newspapers, and big-name correspondents interview one another over grog. The biggest fraud is Pettibon, "The Paper's" man in Paris. Despite the Pulitzer Prize he won, the books he wrote, the generals and Prime Ministers he met and conquered, Pettibon is a cheesecloth hero. He pretends fluent French and frets over whether his latest...
...artists came and went, but the two women remained inseparable. Let Miss Stein's mannish and serene face appear at a café, and there beside her was sure to be found the birdlike Miss Toklas, with her large, darting eyes and determined mouth. The relationship between the two women lasted for more than 39 years, until Miss Stein succumbed to cancer in 1946. Last week, 20 years after the loss of her devoted friend, death came in Paris to Alice Boyd Toklas...
...townspeople take turns moving into the spotlight to give an account, not so much of the murder, as of their own thwarted hopes and twisted lives. The 34-year-old deserted wife of a café owner has been sleeping with her handy man, a boy young enough to be her son. Another woman, admired for supporting her ancient, mentally enfeebled mother, actually beats the old lady. Eldritch also has its girlish flibbertigibbets (Susan Tyrrell and Katherine Bruce), its freak, a hunchbacked girl, and its leper, a whiskery derelict whom the local toughs mock with cries of "baaa!, baaa!" because...
...Thus the Café Cristal crowd at The Diplomat in Hollywood, Fla., received a refreshing surprise last week when a new singer named Lana Cantrell announced kiddingly, "I wrote all the music, and I made the dress myself." The same club is in for the same sort of happy jolt this week when another new comer, Marilyn Maye, breezes in and limits the tributes to her piano-accompanist husband, Sammy Tucker. "Stand up, honey," she usually says, "and let them see your fat little body." Their asides aside, Lana and Marilyn are old-fashioned do-it-yourself singers with...
...successful line-up are Mr. Laffs, which goes in for major-league baseball players, and Maxwell's Plum, decorated in "spontaneous American" by Owner Warner LeRoy, 31, son of the Hollywood producer, who sees his pub as "a revolution between the old-style pickup bar and a new café. We act as catalysts to the very gregarious, but on a high level." So high, LeRoy claims, that "Timothy Leary used to come in every evening, and one night we refused Bobby Kennedy because there was no room...